Flavors Banned From Cigarettes to Deter Youths

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/health/policy/23fda.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Summary

This article is about the Federal Health Officials banning flavored cigarettes to try and stop teens from smoking. Thanks to president Obama he has given authority to the F.D.A to ban any kind of tobacco. They want to take flavored cigarettes off the the market because according to a 2004 study 17 year old smokers smoke more flavored cigarettes then people over 25 years old. Even though they have banned these cigarettes there are some very vague parts because they did not clearly define what a cigarette is. When the tabacco company was asked about whether they would be taking flavored cigars off the market because flavoured cigars are made with tobacco but just without the paper around it they tried to avoid the question.


Connections

I think the producer will be greatly effected by the losing there 3600 teenage smokers that start smoking every day. The consumer may not stop smoking just beacuse they stop selling there favourite cigarettes because once some one is addicted you can not just stop. I think the producer knows that the consumer will keep buying from the retailer because they are addicted. Even if the teenage consumers decide to all stop smoking the producers will still be making multi million dollars from all of there other sales

Reflection

I am very happy with Obama's choice to help teenagers to make the right decision and not smoke at a very young age or at all. Even though this may stop some kids from smoking they will never be able to stop them all. I think just banning the flavoured cigarettes will not stop kids from smoking because they could just stop smoking those and begin to smoke the non flavored ones. I think they should ban all tobacco products which will increase the life span of people.